ENVI 5903: Sustainable Development

Dr Phil McManus

Credit Points: 6
Session: July
Prerequisites: None
Classes: Two 2 hour lectures per week for seven weeks
Assessment: Essay and presentation

This Unit of Study demonstrates the history and contested understandings of the concept of sustainable development. It applies these concepts to explore important environmental science issues such as population, water management sustainable cities, rural development, industrial ecology, and energy issues. The Unit concludes by presenting a range of future scenarios and encouraging students to develop their own vision of sustainability at the global and other scales, and to communicate their means of achieving this sustainability vision.